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I have recently booked a number of reward flights LHR-LAX – AA have preferable flight times on the route compared to BA.
When redeeming avios for these flights the taxes quoted by BA are far lower than if selecting AA. I have queried this with the BA call centre and they have confirmed the “taxes” from AA are correct. I can’t quite work out why this is the case – I thought they were in a codeshare agreement on these flights and thus taxes would be equal?
Ba will be RFS taxes so at a lower fixed rate set by BA
Aa using Avios will be the commercial taxes payable
If you want a real laugh look up how much AA would charge on their site.
Hint: Book aa using avios via QR, will save you some surcharges. BA add their own surcharges to AA long haul flights.
Hint: Book aa using avios via QR, will save you some surcharges. BA add their own surcharges to AA long haul flights.
thanks – tried a dummy booking on the QR website – taxes coming out the same as on the BA website. The irony of the situation is when looking at economy flights the taxes on a reward AA booking are more than a cash booking!
Just as a reference incase anyone is wondering or stumbles across this in the future – the difference is 150GBP (BA) vs 456GBP (AA) for taxes roundtrip in economy – Avios are 65K on BA vs 53K on AA.
Eek.
Fortunately, all the Avios programmes gradually aligning (so far BA, Aer Lingus, soon Qatar and Finnair will come closer I suppose) should iron out such inconsistencies.
Of course everyone will align to lowest avios and lowest cash pricing being the same across all programs… Won’t they?
Of course everyone will align to lowest avios and lowest cash pricing being the same across all programs… Won’t they?
I hopefully detect some scepticism here. I suspect they’ll move towards BA high surcharge model
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